Google Meetings Series for Post Primary Schools

This Series will take place over six dates, from Monday 17^th January - Monday 28^th February 2022, from 4.15 - 4.45p.m. on each date. This Series promises to take users from the very beginning and aims to be practical in its nature. 

Session #1 - Monday 17^th January 2022

• How to access your Google Workspace,
• Layout of Gmail and how to send an email,
• Managing your email - labelling, staring and adding to tasks,
• How to use schedule send,
• Introduction to Google Drive and setting up folders, and
• Introduction to Google Classroom.

Session #2 - Monday 24^th January 2022

Focus on Google Classroom

• How to invite students (e.g. sending the code to students, inviting them individually on the people stream, and adding a co-teacher)
• The importance of the classwork tab rather than the stream
• Using the stream for announcements and posting them/scheduling them,
• Setting up topics to organize your class,
• Moving topics around/filtering topics,
• Distributing class materials – 'the one for everyone in the audience' option,
• Reusing materials for another class,
• How to email your students from Google Classroom,
• Finding your material in google Drive,
• Global settings – how to enable/disable settings, and
• Archiving old classes.

Session #3 - Monday 31^st January 2022

Working Collaboratively with Google Workspace

• Introduction to Google Slides, and
• Intoduction to Jamboards.

Session #4 - Monday 7^th February 2022

Focus on Formative Assessment with Google Workspace

• Sharing learning intentions,
• Co-negotiating the success criteria with Jamboards,
• Using the question feature - formative questions, exit tickets, and
• Using the Jamboard to do KWL and other graphic organisers.

Session #5 - Monday 14^th February 2022

Focus on Summative Assessment

• How to set up an assignment so that plagiarism is checked,
• How to see plagiarism in an assignment that has been turned in,
• Marking work in suggesting mode, using comment banks (and the #) and returning multiple at once,
• Downloading the mote extension and leaving voice feedback,
• How to set up a marking rubric,
• Using the rubric and reusing them across classes, and
• Using the explore icon - citations, images.

Session #6 - Monday 28^th February 2022

Focus on Assessment with Google Quiz

• The basics of setting up a Google Quiz,
• Allowing a Quiz to self-mark
• Turning an old Form into a Quiz and using the document to form add-on.

Clare Wallace

Clare Wallace is an experienced Google Workspace Educator. She has led training in Google and other educational software for several years. Clare is currently a Deputy Principal in Coláiste Mhuire Co-Ed in Thurles.